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Technical information about ISO 639 language code is
The table below provides technical details for the Icelandic language, designated by the is
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Icelandic belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Germanic subgroup. It is the official language in Iceland and is written using the Latin script, specifically the Icelandic alphabet. It is estimated that there are more than 300,000 speakers worldwide.
Speakers
300K
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Icelandic speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
is-IS
– Icelandic (Iceland)
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